Edwin Carewe – MRQE

Resurrection

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.

The Bad Man

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

As a stage play, The Bad Man was a success because of its hilarious and colorful dialogue. That was lost when it was made into a film, and the subtitles didn’t quite make up for it. However, Holbrook Blinn reprised the role he played on stage, Manuel Lopez (a take on Pancho Villa), and his characterization is definitely a standout. Because his cattle are regularly being rustled, rancher Gilbert Jones (Jack Mulhall) cannot meet his growing debts. One day his former sweetheart (Enid Bennett), who had married another, shows up. So does Lopez, the bandit responsible for all of Jones’ misfortune. Lopez is about to completely clean out Jones — and take his girl — when he recognizes the hapless rancher. A couple of years before, Jones had saved Lopez’s life. The bandit insists that he will take care of Jones, and he does. He puts Jones’ affairs in order, proves the villainy of the girl’s husband, Morgan Pell (Walter McGrail), and then kills him. Finally, he gives back all the cattle he stole. He also lends Jones enough money to start over before riding off into the sunset.

Ramona

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Based on the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of 1884 about a young woman of partial Native American descent, who experiences love and loss in 1800s California.

Joanna

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Joanna Manners is a flapper with a million-dollar figure, million-dollar looks, and a million dollars in cash. She falls in love with John Wilmore, a gut who hasn’t got a dime nor a pot to put it in if he had a dime. There are those who object. Especially, the crowd of gold-digging gigolos and hustlers she knows.

The Spoilers

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

On a voyage to Nome, Roy Glenister, one of the several owners of a rich mine, The Midas, is captivated by Helen Chester, while he both fascinates and disquiets her by his primitive nature. He arrives to find his partners, Slapjack Simms and Joe Dextry, befuddled by a trio of no-gooders: Voorhees, the U. S. marshal, Judge Stillman, and McNamara, a politician. Their racket is to cloud title to the various mine claims, eject the miners, and make McNamara owner of the disputed properties.

The Girl of the Golden West

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A now forgotten star of the later silent era, Sylvia Breamer took on the old David Belasco stage chestnut in this remake of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1915 Western classic. Miss Breamer plays a saloon owner who becomes a pawn between two men, a swashbuckling bandit (played in his usual florid style by J. Warren Kerrigan of The Covered Wagon fame) and a tough lawman (Russell Simpson). The center-piece of the story is, of course, the climactic poker game, in which the stakes are the bandit’s life and the girl’s virtue. According to contemporary reviews, Sylvia Breamer was sorely miscast as the tough, yet feminine saloon boss and that the film was no improvement over the DeMille original. There would be three further remakes of the old stage play: 1930, starring Ann Harding, and 1938, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, plus the 1943 Italian Una Signora del l’Ovest, featuring Michel Simon, Isa Pola and Rossano Brazzi.

The Splendid Sinner

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A woman marries a German immigrant in New York, but loses him when her soiled past is revealed. He returns to Germany after the beginning of the First World War, where he becomes a high-ranking officer in the German army. His wife joins the Red Cross and, in a combat hospital, discovers her wounded husband. Her love for both her husband and her country lead her to a great sacrifice.